ThRoewer
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I didn't get a refund for the deformed fish yet, only for a goby that died soon after arriving (that one came from QM). But I will contact them again about this.
Ironically, the ones I got a couple of months earlier directly from ORA were OK. Those are now in my 100 gallon tank. Unfortunately, there they are almost never out in the open.
The new guys went into my upside-down tank with the janssi pipefish. Two of them, the flawless and Quasimodo are always out in the open or just underneath the shelf where the pipefish hang out.
As for genetics, I'm not sure if these defects are strictly caused by that. Especially since assessors are not as inbred as designer clownfish. I feel it's more related to poor conditions in the larvae tank.
Also, even under ideal conditions, you will quite often have a certain percentage of defects in each clutch. So I would rather categorize this under poor quality control on the end of ORA and Diver's Den. ORA should have never sent those out and Diver's Den should have never accepted and listed them for sale, at least not without a note to their defects.
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Ironically, the ones I got a couple of months earlier directly from ORA were OK. Those are now in my 100 gallon tank. Unfortunately, there they are almost never out in the open.
The new guys went into my upside-down tank with the janssi pipefish. Two of them, the flawless and Quasimodo are always out in the open or just underneath the shelf where the pipefish hang out.
As for genetics, I'm not sure if these defects are strictly caused by that. Especially since assessors are not as inbred as designer clownfish. I feel it's more related to poor conditions in the larvae tank.
Also, even under ideal conditions, you will quite often have a certain percentage of defects in each clutch. So I would rather categorize this under poor quality control on the end of ORA and Diver's Den. ORA should have never sent those out and Diver's Den should have never accepted and listed them for sale, at least not without a note to their defects.
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